Originally Posted by patentcad

>>I can say that I’m pretty pleased with what I’ve gotten. I’ve been a while without a mountain bike and having one of this caliber is more than enough encouragement to go out and get a little dirty. So I guess that makes me a shill. I guess I'll join the crowd.<<

There's a major bottom line for me. No $1900 Bikes Direct Fly Ti, no new MTB. The price was attractive enough to make it a no brainer. I was on the web yesterday pricing Litespeed Ti hard tails with similar components, and the prices were in the low to high $5K range, not $2K. So if the Fly Ti is even in the same ballpark with those bikes it's a screaming bargain. I haven't ridden those, but the Motobecane is so far beyond what I had before I'm very happy.